Past Events
Event Date:
October 4, 2018; 11 am - 12:15 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have long been the gold standard for providing evidence to support the safety and efficacy of a new drug, vaccine, or biologic. Most pre-marketing product development programs are divided into three phases (phase 1, 2 and 3) with phase 3 consisting of large RCTs... more
Event Date:
Sunday, July 29, 2018 - 11:30am to Monday, July 30, 2018 - 1:59pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Each year at JSM, NISS Affiliates get together for a luncheon to connect, network with other affiliates and examine a specific topic of common interest. This year luncheon speakers will talk about how data science groups are organized within industry as well as within institutes of data science in... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - 9:00am to Friday, June 1, 2018 - 4:59pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference and Training Center. Conference Rooms 1-2
Postal Square Building, 1st Street, NE,
Washington, District of Columbia, 20212-0001
United States
Postal Square Building, 1st Street, NE,
Washington, District of Columbia, 20212-0001
United States
COURSE OUTLINE
R is a flexible, extensible statistical computing environment, but it is limited to single-core execution. Spark is a distributed computing environment which treats R as a first-class programming language. This course introduces data structures in R and their use in functional... more
Event Date:
Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 9:00am to Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00pm, in Toronto, Canada
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
COURSE OUTLINE
R is a flexible, extensible statistical computing environment, but it is limited to single-core execution. Spark is a distributed computing environment which treats R as a first-class programming language. This course introduces data structures in R and their use in functional... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 11:00am to Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 11:59am
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Objective
Following the very successful first virtual NISS-Merck meet-up on the FDA draft guidance on “Multiple Endpoints in Clinical Trials” on September 12, 2017 (recordings available here), the second NISS-Merck meetup held on January 23, 2018 (Tuesday) between 11:00 and 12:00 noon Eastern... more
Event Date:
Saturday, September 30, 2017 - 9:00am to Monday, October 2, 2017 - 4:59pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Genomics Auditorium
University of California
900 University Avenue
Riverside, California, 92521
United States
University of California
900 University Avenue
Riverside, California, 92521
United States
COURSE OUTLINE
R is flexible, extensible statistical computing environment, but it is limited to single-core execution. Spark is a distributed computing environment which treats R as a first-class programming language. This course introduces data structures in R and their use in functional... more
Event Date:
Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 9:00am to Saturday, September 16, 2017 - 4:59pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
American Statistical Association Headquarters
732 North Washington St.
Alexandria, Virginia,
United States
732 North Washington St.
Alexandria, Virginia,
United States
COURSE OUTLINE
R is a flexible, extensible statistical computing environment, but it is limited to single-core execution. Spark is a distributed computing environment which treats R as a first-class programming language. This course introduces data structures in R and their use in functional... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 11:00am to Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 11:59am
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
United States
United States
OBJECTIVE
In an effort to introduce NISS to statisticians involved in the research and development of pharmaceutical products, NISS and Merck are jointly hosting a series of free virtual meetups, quarterly over the web, on emerging issues of interest to this community. The meeting will focus on the... more
Event Date:
TBA
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
United States
United States
Spring 2017 Affiliates Meeting
CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE
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Event Date:
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Hilton Chicago
Waldorf Room, 3rd Floor
720 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60605
United States
Waldorf Room, 3rd Floor
720 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60605
United States
Monday, August 1, from 6:30-8:30 PM at the Hilton Chicago (in the Waldorf Room on the 3rd Floor) was the annual reception hosted by NISS.
Nell Sedransk, Director of NISS, made the announcement that Bill Eddy from Carnegie Mellon is the winner of the 2016 Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-... more